Age-related regional brain T2-relaxation changes in healthy adults

Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 300-308

  Kumar, Rajesh ^a   Delshad, Sean ^a   Woo, Mary A ^b   MacEy, Paul M ^b   Harper, Ronald M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

free water; gray matter; magnetic resonance imaging; T2 relaxometry; white matter

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; CEREBELLUM; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL CORTEX; PONTINE NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PUTAMEN; SAMPLE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STUDENT T TEST; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS;

EID: 84863393679     PISSN: 10531807     EISSN: 15222586     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jmri.22831     Document Type: Article

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